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Starbucks

Starbucks expanding menu delivery service across the U.S. in new agreement with Uber Eats

Starbucks coffee to go will go even further early next year as the Seattle-based company is expanding its Starbucks Delivers… Read More

Starbucks teams with new restaurant tech platform, led by coffee giant’s former chief digital officer

Starbucks’ commitment to technology-powered retail solutions took another step forward on Monday as the company announced it is teaming with… Read More

Extra! Extra! room for cream, but not newspapers, as Starbucks to stop selling NY Times and others

Stop the (French) presses. According to a report in the New York Post this week, Starbucks is going to stop… Read More

Starbucks taps Seattle startup LevelTen in first-of-its-kind clean energy deal

Starbucks has struck a first-of-its-kind clean energy deal that will generate enough power to run 3,000 of its stores by… Read More

Cleanup on Episode 4: HBO scrubs errant Starbucks cup from ‘Game of Thrones’

Tormund may have been especially adamant about how he really did see Jon Snow riding a dragon, but the “Game… Read More

Microsoft teams up with Starbucks on predictive drive-thru ordering and bean-to-cup blockchain

Starbucks is quickly becoming as much a tech company as a coffee company, but that hasn’t stopped its leadership from… Read More

‘Game of Thrones’ gets roasted for leaving a Starbucks coffee cup in a shot during episode four

Even the Mother of Dragons needs her coffee fix, apparently. In a gaffe for the ages, HBO’s popular and nearly… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet lands its first CMO; Eatsa hires former Starbucks digital exec; and more

Smartsheet, the Seattle-area maker of work collaboration software, appointed Anna Griffin as its first chief marketing officer. Griffin was previously… Read More

Howard Schultz sued over unsolicited text messages to voters as he mulls presidential bid

A Florida woman is suing former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in federal court in Seattle, claiming that his team sent… Read More

Starbucks invests $100M in private equity fund; tests new coffee traceability app feature

Starbucks is using a new method to invest in burgeoning technology. The Seattle coffee giant for the first time is… Read More

Howard Schultz hires former Instagram analytics chief, looks to build tech team in advance of possible White House bid

Howard Schultz, the coffee mogul contemplating an independent run for the White House, is staffing up his tech team with… Read More

Howard Schultz calls out ‘far-left activists’ for torpedoing Amazon HQ2 in NY

As CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz grew his company alongside another massive Seattle-based corporation: Amazon. The two ambitious companies took… Read More

Amazon names Starbucks COO Rosalind Brewer as director, diversifying previously all-white board

Rosalind “Roz” Brewer, chief operating officer at Starbucks, has joined Amazon’s board of directors, the Seattle tech giant announced today.… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek: Howard Schultz’s presidential pitch, beating Zillow’s Zestimate, and Bluetooth’s new direction

Can Howard Schultz make a serious run for U.S. president? Can Zillow’s Zestimate be beaten? And can I find my… Read More

In hometown of Seattle, Howard Schultz defends presidential aspirations as protesters sound off

Howard Schultz took a lot of heat this week after announcing that he’s seriously considering running for president in 2020… Read More

Key takeaways from former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s new book, ‘From the Ground Up’

Howard Schultz might as well have named his latest book, “I am running for president. And this is why you… Read More

Potential presidential hopeful Howard Schultz was an innovator in business, but in politics he’s a traditionalist

As CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz got into the habit of signing his memos to employees, “Onward, Howard.” The sign-off,… Read More

Howard Schultz for president? Ex-Starbucks chief talks about Trump on 60 Minutes as Democrats urge him not to run in 2020

Update: Schultz tweeted that he is”seriously considering” a presidential bid. https://twitter.com/HowardSchultz/status/1089675490707865603 https://twitter.com/HowardSchultz/status/1089679860329578497 A potential Howard Schultz presidential run is inching… Read More

Starbucks partners with Uber Eats, will expand coffee delivery service to nearly 2,000 U.S. stores

Starbucks is partnering with Uber to expand its delivery service as the coffee giant looks for new ways to reach… Read More

Starbucks says it will block the ability to view pornographic content on its stores’ Wi-Fi in 2019

Starbucks wants the Third Place to be a more welcoming place. The Seattle-based global coffee giant is planning to take… Read More

Tech Moves: Remitly CFO lands in the grocery world; Amazon finance VP joins Robinhood

Krish Srinivasan, former CFO of Seattle international money transfer startup Remitly, has found his next gig, and it’s in a… Read More

Tech Moves: Indochino adds Lululemon CTO Julie Averill to board of directors; and more

Indochino, the Vancouver, B.C., based custom clothing company, has added its first independent board member: Lululemon CTO Julie Averill. “Indochino’s… Read More

IoT experts: Automation will be good for retail, replacing ‘complete waste of time’ jobs with more productive work

Many economists see automation as a major threat to jobs, but experts in the world of the Internet of Things… Read More

Business advice from Howard Schultz: The ‘humanity’ of a company will create long-term value

Howard Schultz had just returned from a trip to Poland, where he had a sobering experience at the Auschwitz concentration camp.… Read More

Starbucks announces plans to ‘go greener’ at 10,000 of its stores worldwide by 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Two months after Starbucks announced a phase-out of plastic straws, the Seattle-based coffee company is pledging… Read More

We always fall for it: These states are tweeting the most about Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte

Ah, yes, it wouldn’t be fall without … wait. It’s not even Labor Day yet. Well, that doesn’t matter for… Read More

Treasure Truck

Amazon’s Treasure Truck pulling into select Seattle Starbucks locations to generate buzz

Amazon’s Treasure Truck is refueling today — on caffeine — as pickups in the Seattle area are taking place inside… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: How blueprints for 3D printed guns turned into a national lawsuit

A legal battle over 3D-printed guns is heating up once again. Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a new lawsuit this… Read More

Finally, a practical use for Bitcoin? Starbucks might take cryptocurrency for lattes

For technologies that have been billed as the future of payments, it’s really hard to actually use digital currencies like… Read More

TLDR: Apple becomes a $1 trillion company, Starbucks & Alibaba launch delivery service, George Takei joins TraceMe

Today’s featured stories Apple becomes first American public company to be worth $1,000,000,000,000 — briefly Starbucks and Alibaba to integrate… Read More

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